Clayton A. Chan, D.D.S. Founder/Director

About Dr. Chan

Dr. Clayton Chan is a dental educator, trainer and consultant to dentists who span the globe from private practice to leading dental organizations. All attest to Dr. Chan's unique impact in the field of private practice, personal and organizational transformation and development.

Dr. Chan has shared platforms with leading authorities in the areas of occlusion, temporomandibular joint dysfunction, orthodontic/orthopedics and comprehensive restorative and continues to be a leader in advocating the use of objective measuring technologies to bring accountability to the clinical dental practice.

Occlusion Connections™ is designated as an Approved PACE Program Provider by the Academy of General Dentistry. The formal continuing dental education programs of this program provider are accepted by AGD for Fellowship/Mastership and membership maintenance credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by a state or provincial board of dentistry or AGD endorsement. The current term of approval extends from 9/1/2016 to 8/31/2020. Provider ID# 349336.

Welcome to OC

A new understanding is required of today’s dentist to grasp underlying factors that relates clinical dentistry to both the gnathic and neuromuscular principles. This journey is a blended process that brings an in depth understanding with clinical experience. Together with excellence based on honesty, respect, discipline and courage these organic concepts will come together in both skilled clinical application and bio-physiologic science. This is GNM.

Finding a Qualified GNM Dentist

Disclosure:
It is the responsibility of each patient to ask the right questions in order to determine whether a dentist is qualified to meet your particular dental needs. Dentist have varying degrees of knowledge, experience, training and skills. Occlusion Connections™ is not responsible for the diagnostic and clinical decision making that each dentist makes when treating their patients.

The dentist listed on this map have taken varying levels of OC courses. It is your responsibility to determine if each one is qualified to treat and help meet your particular needs.

What is preventing people from receiving care that solves their problems?

Is it access to trained personnel?

Is it too many within the profession claiming abilities and patients wind up bouncing around without resolution and grow weary?

Is it a lack of knowledge on the part of the public as to whether dentistry can even help?

Is it cost?

Is it confusion over Treatment modalities?

Other factors?

Is there a lack of dentists because of the difficulty in gaining proficiency based on their time commitment and financial model of how they practice dentistry?

Doctors who listen to patient feedback learn to act on the observed findings. A large percentage of physician’s or health care providers who many of the TMD patients have seen over the past 5-6 years either are either not interested in patient feedback, or will tell the patient that their problems is related to something else. Some will say the problem is related to obliterated discs or will tell the wondering patient that their occlusion is perfect or they are stressed, to nothing is wrong. Perhaps, they suggest, that TMD, pain, disc derangements, and masticatory dysunction is related to menneires disease, CRPS, Fibromyalgia, Giant Cell Temporal Arthritis, Eagles Syndrome and the list goes on…….

The desperate patient spends more money to get tested for these suggested problems and low and behold the testing comes up negative – those suspected problems are not present and the physician either goes quiet or tells you the testing is wrong!